A Time and a Place
Helen Mort....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.
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On defeat
Want or lack / undo / redo
late 14c., defeten, diffaiten, "overcome (with sorrow or anger)," from Anglo-French defeter, from Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire "to undo," from Vulgar Latin *diffacere "undo, destroy," from Lati...
Heron as agitator, heron as GBH
I’ve become fascinated by the idea that heron is either poem or writer, possibly both.
Why?
Herons stir things up. Always have. They’re little avian agitators.
Something which seems fairly consistent across cultures, across history is...
'Smile', says the photographer
Writers are a nightmare to live with at the best of times, but I’d wager we’re at our worst at around the point when a new book is published, passing out of our hands and into the hands (and minds) of our audience.
We’re all familiar with...
Heron death invents poetry
In March 2028 in Wales, a man killed a heron to rescue a duckling it had just swallowed. He shot it with an air gun and extracted the young bird, which was still alive. He was, however, inconveniently left with a dead heron on his hands. Th...
Rest!
Here’s a new poem about rest-in-a-time-of-late-capitalism. There may be a sequel poem for you soon, one that considers the phenomenon of ‘resting bitch face’. But for now, ‘Rest!’.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead. Etc.
Rest!
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Poet, novelist, non-fiction writer published by Chatto & Windus and Ebury. Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Banff Grand Prize. Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. FRSL.
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